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I agree with all y'all.
TV has run into a dead spot in our culture or something. Maybe it's overproduced, overtested, etc. I have a TiVo and full cable and I find that I never want to watch anything except Comedy Central. Nothing is truly compelling.
It's like - nothing is the least bit honest and real. Post Seinfeld, no sitcom can pretend to be about "real life", because Seinfeld did it so well. But all shows depend on some connection to reality in order to be a basis for comedy. So what's left is either grounded in the past (That 70s Show), cartoons, cartoon-LIKE (Malcolm)...
And all drama is anti-climactic to 9/11 real drama.
So then we demand reality shows in order to return to some level of reality... and what happens: they're overcast, overproduced, overtested, overedited, with every outrageous premise getting run up the flagpole, I vomit, the end...
Bleh. I have enough drama in my own life to satisfy right now, and if I want well-done characters I just come here.
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